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Bill: Voluntary ID Cards
Details
Submitted by[?]: Maroon Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2050
Description[?]:
| Having one less thing to constantly carry around and hassle over would make life much easier for our citizens. Moreover, our citizens must sometimes engage in activities such as swimming that make it impractical to carry an ID card with them. The Orwellian implications of a mandatory ID card should not be allowed to corrupt our nation. I propose that we make the issuance of ID cards voluntary and that these ID cards be used for identification at security places such as airports, but they should not be required for taking a jog in a park, per se. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government-issued identity card policy.
Old value:: All citizens are issued with identity cards and are required to carry them at all times.
Current: All citizens are issued with identity cards and are required to carry them at all times.
Proposed: All citizens are issued with identity cards but are not required to carry them.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:43:58, May 09, 2005 CET | From | To | Debating the Voluntary ID Cards |
| Message | This is a great step in the right direction, and the ACF will back you up on this one. |
| Date | 15:03:09, May 09, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Voluntary ID Cards |
| Message | I thank you for your support. |
| Date | 19:36:07, May 09, 2005 CET | From | Dorvik National Party | To | Debating the Voluntary ID Cards |
| Message | We feel this would be better if the people must have an identity card, but choose whether to carry it around |
| Date | 22:06:15, May 09, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Voluntary ID Cards |
| Message | Okay, I changed it to reflect that reasonable position. |
| Date | 22:58:58, May 09, 2005 CET | From | Dorvik National Party | To | Debating the Voluntary ID Cards |
| Message | We will back you on this. |
| Date | 23:04:19, May 09, 2005 CET | From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Voluntary ID Cards |
| Message | This is nonsense - the police stop a suspected terrorist but have to take him back to his house and root around for the ID card? Totally impractical we might as well not even have ID Cards! |
| Date | 00:32:42, May 10, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Voluntary ID Cards |
| Message | Then why don't we? It's not like your ID card is going to list if you're a terrorist or not. |
| Date | 00:53:16, May 10, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Voluntary ID Cards |
| Message | We'll require a national ID card for doing things like boarding a plane, or recieving government services, voting, etc., but there's no reason that a person walking down the street should have an ID card with him at every moment. Don't tell me you've never left home forgetting something. Our current policy would punish that. |
| Date | 08:34:29, May 10, 2005 CET | From | To | Debating the Voluntary ID Cards |
| Message | ACF would have backed you up previously, but this is unacceptable. |
| Date | 12:50:45, May 10, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Voluntary ID Cards |
| Message | We're giving everyone an ID card, but not making them carry it around. This seems like the easiest thing to do, actually: a standard ID card would make things like going to the airport, or taking security actions not require a variety of different IDs, and would allow everyone to have an ID with their age on it if that ever became an issue. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 68 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 27 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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